“Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.”

“It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.”

“To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.”

“One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.”

“Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.”

“The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.”